Sorry

[BLS]

...writing a message frustated and in a bad mood never has been an good 
idea. <<D not for me anymore>>

What I've said was too negative and at least not fair against all the 
efforts allready made.

So, my apologies. Sorry!

Why this frustration : Simply because I have tried to translate some 
Java code into D. I wasn't able to do that because even a small Java 
programm allmost depends on java.util /*collections (Hashmap, 
Hashset,Hashtable, ...) */ as well as Java array and strings.
Due to the fact that phobos doesn't offer much support for these basic 
data structures it is, at least, very difficult to translate Java into 
D. (even by hand)

Meanwhile (today) I have seen that Mango offers something from 
java.util.* (even if it is not part of the binary ditribution) *and* 
listening to Walter's  RedBackTree query, I have some hope that mango 
collections will find a way into phobos.


Next : I am still convinced that a semi automatic  Java to D Translation 
is possible if we just have these java-like collections, a compatible 
Sting and Array??? class.

Some of you may have noticed that I spend some time on a translator tool 
like that. What I'll publish here in the attachemenmt is a not my code. 
The Code-Emitter attached is based on a Java Tree Parser.
But you'll agreee : The following,attached  Java code can be adapted to 
produce valid D code.



Björn
To test: You need 1) ANTLR 2.7.5/6, 2) Java 1.3 respectice 1.5 grammar 
and tree-grammar from the ANTLR Hompage 3) The attached file.
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